and in fact Automake has stopped trying to cater to Debian install-info since
the release 1.11.2.
So I have an install-info from dpkg, which is used by fink, which
installs packages to another prefix (default: /sw):
fang% which install-info
/sw/sbin/install-info
fang% dpkg -S `which install-info`
dpkg: /sw/sbin/install-info
What happens if you use GNU info instead? Do the testsuite failures
persist?
Already using GNU info (previous report):
fang% ls -l `which info`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 fang admin 534832 Nov 11 2008 /sw/bin/info*
fang% dpkg -S /sw/bin/info
texinfo: /sw/bin/info
fang% info --version
info (GNU texinfo) 4.13
What happens if you re-run the failed tests after defining 'AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR'
to "no" in the environment? Like this:
$ cd tests && AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no make -jN recheck
% env AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no make recheck
FAIL: install-info-dir.test
FAIL: distcheck-override-infodir.test
These are weaknesses in the testsuite, which are fixed by the attached
patch. Thanks for having found them.
And thanks for looking into this issue!
Fang
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David Fang
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/
